calotte

English

cardinal wearing a calotte (1)

Etymology

Borrowed from French calotte.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kəˈlɑt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kəˈlɒt/
• Rhymes: -ɒt

Noun

calotte (plural calottes)

1. A skullcap worn by Roman Catholic priests.

   Synonym: zucchetto

2. (archaic) The vertical central area of the crown of a bird's head.
3. (architecture) A round cavity or depression, in the form of a cup or cap, lathed and plastered; used to diminish the rise or elevation of a moderate chapel, alcove, etc. which would otherwise be too high for other pieces of the apartment.
4. (anatomy) The upper (superior) or lower (inferior) half of the globe of the eye.

Derived terms

• calotte model

Further reading

• Calotte on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Coletta, cattelo

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Occitan calotta, calota, either an extension of French cale (“a kind of bonnet”), or from Arabic كَلُّوتَة (kallūta, “a headdress consisting of a small cap with a giant turban, or only the small cap”). See also French calot and Latin calautica, kinds of caps.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.lɔt/

• Audio:

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Noun

calotte f (plural calottes)

1. zucchetto (skullcap worn by Roman Catholic clergy)
2. kippah (Jewish cap)
3. (Belgium) calotte (religious skullcap)
4. (Belgium, university slang) cap worn by students of Belgian Catholic universities after the corona ceremony (a sort of hazing)

   Antonym: penne

5. (colloquial) tap, knock on the head, buffet, smack, cuff
6. (by extension) cap (of ice)

Derived terms

• calotté
• calotte glaciaire
• calottin
• décalotter
  • décalottage
• recalotter
  • recalottage

Descendants

Descendants of calotte

• → Catalan: calota
• → English: calotte
• → German: Kalotte
• → Italian: calotta
• → Portuguese: calota, calote
• → Spanish: galota, galocha

Further reading

• “calotte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Noun

calotte f

1. plural of calotta

Anagrams

• caletto, calettò, coletta, tolteca